en-us Copyright Sightline Daily - all rights reserved newsfeeds@sightline.org newsfeeds@sightline.org Most recent Oregon headlines from Sightline Daily, the Northwest news that matters http://daily.sightline.org Plone http://daily.sightline.org/logo.gif 427 69 A Portland nonprofit agency that builds and sells new homes is showing how cheap, green homes can be done. HOST Development Inc. is finishing work on the first homes in its Helensview Homes development -- the first traditional single-family neighborhood project in town to receive LEED-ND (Neighborhood Development) certification. http://www.portlandtribune.com/sustainable/story.php?story_id=121078405352033000 Environment Green Business Sustainable Living Oregon 05/15/2008 Portland Tribune This state is known for many things -- good wine, the imperial branding of the Nike swoosh, a political culture that produces contrarians of both parties -- but ethnic diversity is not one of them. This state has an African-American population of less than 2 percent. And yet on May 20, when voters here could finally end the Democratic presidential marathon by giving Senator Barack Obama an outright majority of pledged delegates, don't expect to hear much about how a black man has broadened the playing field for his party by winning a heavily white state. http://egan.blogs.nytimes.com/ Policy Population Oregon United States 05/15/2008 New York Times Ashland property owners who would be affected by proposed riparian ordinances turned out at Tuesday evening's Planning Commission meeting to voice concerns regarding property rights, restrictions on plantings and possible loss of property. http://www.dailytidings.com/2008/0514/stories/0514_planning.php Environment Policy Oregon 05/14/2008 Ashland Daily Tidings State money, federal money. Charter boats and commercial salmon boats. Crew funds? Funding tied to permits or boats? It’s all up in the air for now, but businesses, vessel owners and crewmen staring into a future devoid of salmon are banking on getting federal disaster money. http://www.theworldlink.com/articles/2008/05/14/news/doc482b2196d1242185556292.txt Economy Salmon Oregon 05/14/2008 Coos Bay World Heat stroke probably killed six sea lions enclosed within a pair of floating cages near Bonneville Dam a week and a half ago, according to federal authorities. http://www.columbian.com/news/localNews/2008/05/05152008_Heat-stroke-likely-killed-sea-lions.cfm Environment Wildlife Oregon Washington 05/14/2008 Vancouver Columbian The presumptive Republican nominee John McCain pioneered the issue of climate change in the Senate where he, along with Sen. Joe Lieberman, introduced the first Senate bill aimed at broad, mandatory reductions in greenhouse gas emissions in 2003. Yet there was an undeniable sense that McCain made history in Oregon Monday, when he promised a radical shift from the Bush administration policy on global warming. http://www.registerguard.com/csp/cms/sites/dt.cms.support.viewStory.cls?cid=100697&sid=5&fid=2 Climate Environment Policy Oregon United States 05/14/2008 Eugene Register Guard Ralph Nader isn't running to please anybody. That much is clear. He says he is running because there is not much difference between the two major party candidates. Nader rejects the term spoiler. He calls it "political bigotry." http://news.opb.org/article/2076-another-campaign-season-and-nader-still-has-lot-say/ Policy Oregon 05/14/2008 Oregon Public Broadcasting Election officials said turnout appears to be strong in Portland, its populous suburbs, and Eugene, home to the University of Oregon. That bodes well for Barack Obama, who has drawn large crowds in stops in those places and who has outperformed Clinton among urban and young voters throughout the primary. http://www.foxnews.com/wires/2008May15/0,4670,OregonPrimary,00.html Policy Oregon 05/15/2008 Fox News The bill doesn't offer as much to Oregon as other states where corn, wheat and other commodities fill silos and get big subsidies, but still there are many who stand to win: West Coast salmon fishermen would get $170 million after record low salmon runs nearly closed the season. http://www.oregonlive.com/business/oregonian/index.ssf?/base/news/121082192674480.xml&coll=7 Salmon Oregon 05/15/2008 Portland Oregonian